The average age of those killed in Buffalo was 62. This wasn’t just an attack on the Black community. It was an attack on our Black elders. #BuffaloMassacre
It has been written,
That life is but a cycle,
From ashes to ashes,
From dust to dust,
What is broken,
Can be repaired,
Not only can we do this,
We must,
We must.
It is much easier to love,
It is much easier to love.
“ A Texas woman?” That’s THEE Opal Lee — She walked 1,400 miles, at 89 yrs old, from Fort Worth to DC to campaign for Juneteenth to be recognized as a federal holiday
Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he TRULY was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
Hearing survivors of the 1937 genocide of 30,000 Haitians by Dominican Republic brings tears.
@NPR thanks for this excellent 2017 piece. A must-read
80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of Parsley Massacre : Parallels : NPR https://t.co/lMHdfbwrDB
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"How do we build solidarity within a culture of individualism, punishment, and accumulation? Drawing connections and showing up is where we should start and return to again and again."
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